Camp Camp OC insert (Harrison x OC x Preston)

Ered Gets Her Cool Back

Max sat at a table, poking his potatoes as Nikki and Neil sit across from him.

"What do you think today's adventure is gonna be?" Nikki asked. "I'm hoping for a wild animal attack!"

"We just had one of those last week." Neil said. "At this point, it's more out of the ordinary when nobody gets mauled."

"Oh. Yeah." Nikki said sadly. "Did Space Kid live? I can't remember. I guess it wasn't THAT big of an adventure if nobody died." Space Kid sat at the table behind Nikki.

"I'll live on in all of your hearts!" Space Kid exclaimed.

"I saw Nurf trying to learn how to play a broken xylophone yesterday." Max said. "That's bound to go somewhere." Nurf held Preston up by his collar with xylophone mallets in the other.

"You don't understand!" He yelled at the thespian. "The A-sharp bar is missing!" He started shaking Preston. "How am I supposed to play anything in D-minor?! The saddest of all keys."

"How strange." Salem monotoned as she tuned her fiddle. "I play in D-minor ALL the time."

"Trying to say you're special, Bitchy Witch?!" Nurf threatened.

"Haven't recycled that insult in a while." Salem noted as she put down her fiddle.

"That's a bit more promising." Neil said as he got out a 'Things Happening' chart. "I've been charting adventures over the last few weeks to see if I can find a pattern and if I'm reading things right, we could be looking at a Scooby-Doo-like murder mystery, a love quadrangle or an accidental wire tap concussion!"

"All that sounds lame as hell, and weirdly specific." Max said. "When will something interesting happen?" Ered skated into the Mess Hall in her skateboard while a breeze coolly blew her hair back. "Hey Ered, your shirt's on inside out."

"Oh, that's weird." Ered said as she tried to get the tag, making her trip over Harrison's linked scarves and tumble into her skateboard. She crashed into Quartermaster, who was holding a pot of potatoes, making the potatoes fall on her head.

Everyone stared at the 'cool girl' in shock at the uncool thing she just did.

"Wow, Ered." Harrison spoke up. "That was... an uncool thing, you just did."

"Ered did something uncool!" Nurf shouted as campers turned from smiles to laughing and pointing at her, except Max. "Way to go, Spuddy! Ha ha! Ha!" Even Quartermaster joined in. Ered gave an uncool moan in embarrassment.

"Now THAT is interesting!" Max exclaimed, slamming his hands on the table.

All the campers stood outside the Counselors Cabin while Nikki paced back and forth in front of the door.

"I can't believe this happened to Ered." Nerris said, grabbing her arm.

"What's taking so long?!" Nikki yelled, gripping Neil's shirt. "Do you think she'll be okay?!"

"Modern medicine's come a long way, Nikki." Neil stated.

"If it hadn't, we'd probably be using essential oils to cure cancer." Salem monotoned.

"...Riiiight... I'm sure Ered'll be fine." Neil said.

"Assuming anything in that cabin is modern." Max said. "We're probably getting asbestos poisoning just talking about it."

"What?!" Nikki questioned angrily. "I'm going to get her out of there and transfer her to a different care facility. It's not her time, damn it, it's not her time!"